tetrasyllable
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- tetrasyllabic adjective
- tetrasyllabical adjective
Etymology
Origin of tetrasyllable
Example Sentences
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His eyes are deep-set and uncommonly circular; when he stretches them into surprise—often in accompaniment of a spiked tetrasyllable like “ri-di-cu-lous,” or “pre-pos-ter-ous,” or “Max Kel-ler-man”—they are perfect O’s.
From The New Yorker
Tetrasyllable, tet′ra-sil-a-bl, n. a word of four syllables.—adjs.
From Project Gutenberg
"One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
From Project Gutenberg
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